WO1998041992A1 - Utilisations medicales de rayons x focalises et d'imagerie par rayons x - Google Patents

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WO1998041992A1
WO1998041992A1 PCT/US1998/005219 US9805219W WO9841992A1 WO 1998041992 A1 WO1998041992 A1 WO 1998041992A1 US 9805219 W US9805219 W US 9805219W WO 9841992 A1 WO9841992 A1 WO 9841992A1
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  • the present invention provides methods and instruments for focusing and imaging x- rays using grazing incidence optics and medical uses thereof.
  • X-ray radiation is used for many medical applications. For example, radiation is used to kill tumor cells that are difficult or impossible to treat with surgery. This "radio-surgery" usually employs what are typically classified as gamma rays ⁇ photons with energy in excess of 1 MeV.
  • Gamma rays are used (instead of x-rays with E ⁇ 100keV) because to kill diseased cells requires a dose of radiation comparable to the dosage needed to kill healthy cells.
  • total dose to a tumor must exceed the dose to surrounding tissue ("therapeutic ratio") if the therapy is to be effective, i.e., kill the tumor cells but not damage healthy tissue.
  • a proper ratio is achieved by directing the beam at the tumor from multiple directions by scanning the beam or pointing multiple beams at the tumor. By this method, the point where the beams cross receives a higher dosage than the healthy tissue the beams must pass through on the way.
  • One problem with this method is that the beam intensity drops rapidly as it passes through the healthy tissue because of Compton scattering by electrons in the tissue.
  • mammograms In order to enhance the contrast of the x-ray image, mammograms must use very low energy x-rays, typically 18keV.
  • the fractional energy absorbed by a small feature rises as the energy drops, creating higher contrast.
  • the percentage absorbed in accordance with the photoelectric effect rises, reducing the scattered radiation component on the film or other recording medium, and thus enhancing contrast.
  • Grids are usually employed as well to further reduce the scattered component.
  • the problem with shifting to low energy photons is a rapid increase in the overall absorption of radiation in the breast. In a typical mammogram, less than 1% of the incident radiation emerges.
  • X-ray optics also can be used for microscopy. Indeed, the first grazing incidence optics (developed in the late 1940's and early 1950's) were applied to microscopy. There is a variety of reasons why x-ray microscopy is of interest, but the field has been stalled for lack of a practical imaging system The first rationale for x-ray microscopy is simply resolution. As Fraunhoffer proved early in the 19 th Century, the resolution of a microscope is fundamentally limited at about one wavelength of radiation. Thus, light microscopes (those that use visible radiation) are limited to about 0.5 ⁇ resolution. A shift to the ultraviolet can extend resolution to about 0.2 ⁇ . The very short wavelengths of x-rays can potentially break through this barrier.
  • a second relevant property of x-rays is their ability to penetrate matter.
  • an x-ray microscope can be used on live cells in an air environment.
  • x-ray absorption is dependent on material density and elemental composition.
  • changes in absorption across K edges can lead to contrast enhancement, creating an extraordinarily sensitivity to elemental composition not found with light or electrons.
  • the design of an x-ray microscope, using grazing incidence optics, is analogous to the design of a conventional light microscope.
  • a light source is placed below a slide containing a sample. The radiation penetrates the sample, and is partially absorbed. The light diverging from the sample is re-imaged and magnified by an optic.
  • a detector is placed at the focal plane to record the image.
  • the present invention solves the problems discussed above, and others related to medical and microscopic uses of x-rays, by providing methods and instruments for medical uses of focused and imaged x-rays.
  • the present invention relates to medical and microscopic (together “biological”) uses of focused x-rays.
  • the invention relates to use of focused x-rays for radio-surgery, mammography and microscopy.
  • the x-rays may be focused using grazing incidence optics or other x-ray optical methods.
  • a preferred method employs spherical mirrors for such grazing incidence optics.
  • the optical system disclosed in U.S. patent No. 5,604,782 may be employed.
  • FIG. 1 shows a converging beam of orthovoltage x-rays focused on a tumor that is situated near the spine.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic that shows flat, or nearly flat, plates in a stack concentrating x- rays to a line focus.
  • FIG. 3 shows a stack of plates creating a line focus together with plates on the exit aperture that control the length of the focal line.
  • FIG. 4 shows x-rays diverging from a point, being concentrated by two reflectors in turn, and returning to a two dimensional focus.
  • FIG. 5 shows concentric shells focusing x-rays in two dimensions at once.
  • FIG. 6 shows an apparatus for stereotactical radio-surgery using orthovoltage x-rays.
  • FIG. 7 shows an apparatus for improved mammography using focused x-ray beams. Diverging x-rays are refocused and filtered prior to reaching the patient. Scattered radiation misses the detectors because they can be small and at a large distance from the patient.
  • FIG. 8 shows an x-ray microscope (right) compared to a conventional light microscope (left). The devices are conceptually similar if one uses a four (or more) spherical mirror lens in the x-ray microscope.
  • FIG. 9 shows raytracing through an x-ray microscope. Resolutions better than O. l ⁇ are achievable across a reasonable field of view.
  • FIG. 10 shows how a four element spherical lens can be simply built by cutting slivers out of full sized polished blanks and stacking them.
  • the present invention provides apparatuses and methods for biological uses of x-ray optics.
  • the invention relates to uses of focused x-rays for medical uses and x-ray microscopy.
  • the medical uses include x-ray radiation therapy, radio- surgery and x-ray diagnostics.
  • the preferred x-ray optic system is described below.
  • focused and related terms, e.g., focusing, as applied to x-rays, includes line and point focusing, imaging and collimating, unless otherwise stated.
  • the x-ray optical systems employed herein are based on the use of grazing incidence optics. It is a generally known phenomenon that x-rays, if incident upon a sufficiently polished surface at a sufficiently low angle, are reflected rather than absorbed or transmitted. The critical angle below which the radiation reflects is a function of the energy of the x-ray and the electron density in the reflecting surface, e.g., a metallic surface. Use of coherent reflection in multilayer coatings can increase the critical angle by up to a factor often. Multilayer mirrors are made by depositing alternating thin layers of two elements with different indices of refraction. This creates constructive interference and, therefore, high reflectivity at one wavelength.
  • Wolter optics comprises nested paraboloids or cones (H. Wolter, "Spiegelsysteme Stenderder Einfalls als Abreende Optiken fur Roentgenstrahlen," Ann. Phys., 10, 94-114
  • the present inventor has developed an x-ray optic (U.S. patent No. 5,604,782 and specifically incorporated herein by reference), primarily based on spherical lenses, that uses grazing incidence optics to refocus radiation diverging from a source.
  • This x-ray optics system also can be used in some applications of the instant invention and is referred to herein as "spherical optics.”
  • An equivalently shaped x-ray beam can be created by moving a pinhole-collimated pencil beam while keeping the beam pointed at one place in space. While this is practical, it leads to severely low fluxes, and impracticably long treatment times.
  • grazing incidence focusing optics Using grazing incidence, an array of mirrors acts like a lens, referred to herein as "grazing incidence focusing optics." X-rays diverging from a source can be refocused to a spot or made into a parallel beam. Our invention concerns the generation and use of such beams for radio-surgery and diagnostics. The characteristics of the converging beams determines their uses.
  • I 0 is an arbitrary intensity parameter. This leads to monotonically decreasing beam intensity, one which has less than 30% the dose at 50mm than it has at the skin.
  • the beam intensity will be given by:
  • the spot (s) is 3.2mm
  • the focus is at a depth (d) of 75mm
  • the beam is/77
  • the flux at the focus will be 2.7 times that at the skin. This ratio is large enough to kill diseased tissue at the focus point without damaging the healthy skin tissue. Scanning the beam in a manner analogous to that already in use with megavolt radio-surgery is also possible to further enhance the ratio by effectively further decreasing the value of/ Another property of the focused x-ray beam is the rapid falloff on the far side of the focal point.
  • Dose deposition differs when using orthovoltage x-rays for radio-surgery.
  • radiation at lMeV and above the only interaction of the photons off electrons in the tissue is Compton scattering. Most of the energy of the photon is transferred to the electron, creating a relativistic electron that can travel centimeters through the body, leaving a wake of broken molecular bonds behind. This means that it is very difficult to create small regions of intense local ionization.
  • Orthovoltage photons also interact primarily (though not exclusively) through Compton interactions. However, 58keN photons transfer only about 10% of their energy to the scattered electron. The other 90% remains in the scattered photon, which continues in a random direction. The scattered photon eventually leaves the body or undergoes another interaction.
  • Figure 1 shows an x-ray beam 1 focused on a tumor 2 lying next to the spinal cord 4.
  • the beam enters the surface of the body 5, reaches its focus at the tumor 2, and then falls in intensity rapidly post- focus 3.
  • the beam is positioned such that the critical structure (e.g., the spinal cord) lies outside the beam to the side.
  • the low energy of the Compton scattered electrons from interaction with the primary beam allows them to travel at most a few hundred microns laterally from the site of the interaction. Therefore, they cannot reach the spinal cord or other nearby critical structure.
  • the Compton-scattered photons from the original beam travel on the order 50mm before being absorbed.
  • the dose experienced by the tissue about 500 microns or more lateral to the beam edge will be less than 2% that seen in the beam. This allows very delicate surgery to be performed near critical structures.
  • the focused beam may also be aligned with the help of diagnostic beams that allow one to place a target in "cross-hairs" in real time.
  • Figure 1 shows beams (6 and 7) that can be used to allow real-time positioning of the focus.
  • Such a capability allows treatment of small tumors in otherwise dangerous areas, such as next to the spinal cord.
  • small tumors in soft tissue, where tumor position can shift between diagnosis and therapy are treatable.
  • Another advantage of the focused beam is its speed. By redirecting a large flux of diverging x-ray radiation to a spot, the local flux is significantly enhanced. Better use of the photons generated is made as more reach the target and fewer hit aperture stops.
  • Kirkpatrick-Baez One Dimensional consist of one or more mirrored plates arranged to take diverging light and bring it to a line focus in one dimension.
  • the plates can be flat, or nearly flat. A curvature in the surface of the plate allows a finer focus. Multilayers on the plate surfaces allow higher reflection angles to be achieved. This allows the mirror array to be shorter and the range of divergence angles to be greater, leading to faster mirror arrays.
  • a schematic of such an array is given in Figure 2. In this case, the rays diverge from the point source 10, are reflected off the flat mirrors in the array 11, and are focused to a line 12.
  • the output of such an array 20, in Figure 3, can have aperture stops 21 placed on it to set the length of the focus line.
  • a mirror array wherein each x-ray undergoes multiple reflections in the same direction sequentially can bend the beam through larger angles yielding a faster beam.
  • the present inventor has developed an x-ray optic (US Patent No. 5,604,782) that allows extremely fine focusing using sequential spheres to correct for coma. This line focus can be used to sweep across large targets with high uniformity of dose.
  • Wolter Geometry Two-dimensional focusing can be done using optics with cylindrical symmetry as well. These are generically known as Wolter optics (supra).
  • the simplest optic is a cylinder.
  • the x-rays reflect off the inside of the cylinder toward a common focus.
  • Toroids and ellipsoids can be used instead of cylinders to improve the quality of the focus.
  • Thin shells may be nested to increase the angular grasp of the optic as in Figure 5. Rays from a point source 40 reflect on the inside of the shells 41 to come to a point-like focus at 42.
  • multiple cylinders in sequence can be used to produce a sequence of reflections to improve the overall grasp and speed of the optic.
  • Focused beams can be applied to a variety of surgical procedures that require the killing, partial killing, or removal of a structure in the body.
  • the procedures that can be done with focused orthovoltage x-ray beams include: a) killing tumors, particularly those that are small and difficult to reach surgically, b) arteriovenous malformation corrections, c) pallidotomy, d) nerve ablation, and e) repair of macular degeneration.
  • Radiation Source 51 generates an x-ray beam with adequate flux, for example, about 1200 cGy to a 3 cm tumor, in a reasonable time, e.g., under one hour, to support therapy.
  • Grazing incidence Focusing Optics 52 shape the beam to conform to the size and shape of the target.
  • a Source Gantry 50 on a rotational arm aims the radiation source at the therapeutic target and may be used to move the x-ray beam through a prescribed arc as treatment proceeds.
  • Treatment Table 55 accurately places and stabilizes the patient's position throughout the procedure.
  • a control console may be used to operate the radiation source, position the patient and direct the beam.
  • a Stereotactic Frame 53 may be affixed to the patient to create external reference points for the target.
  • the tumor is identified with a CT and MRI imaging systems, and positioning angles are determined with the Treatment Planning PC.
  • a visible laser 54 is used to align the x-ray beam to the target using the stereotactic frame.
  • a Treatment Planning PC (“TPCC") is used to plan the angles and sweeping arcs that maximize radiation doses to the target site to ensure minimal damage to surrounding organs and tissue.
  • the TPPC creates a three dimensional model of the patient and the target based on the output of CT and MRI scans.
  • the TPCC is then used to create an optimal set of scans with the x-ray beam to maximize dose to the target and minimize dose to healthy tissue.
  • Software that can be used as the basis for such a PC system can be obtained from Leibinger (Dallas, TX).
  • a converging x-ray beam can be used to deliver a fine, concentrated beam.
  • the focused beam improves skin to tumor dosage ratios. Fast falloff, post-focus and lateral to the beam, allows treatment near sensitive areas. Fine targeting control allows treatment of tumors close to sensitive places, and in areas where the targets could shift. Concentration of the flux reduces treatment time.
  • the present invention provides a mammography unit as set forth in Figure 7.
  • An x- ray beam diverges from a point source 60.
  • Grazing incidence x-ray optics 61 as described above, render the beam parallel and filter unwanted photon energies prior to the beam striking the patient represented schematically 63.
  • Scattered radiation 62 does not strike the detectors 64.
  • the nearly total removal of scatter from the image produced on the detectors creates higher contrast, and allows the Bucky grid of conventional mammography units to be removed. Therefore, patient dose can be decreased by about a factor of three. If the beam is made to slightly converge, then the image size is reduced before it reaches the detector, allowing it to be matched to the detector size, a substantial advantage when using electronic detectors.
  • the use of grazing incidence x-ray focusing optics can create a higher contrast image (no scatter is detected) on a less expensive and more compact detector.
  • a pharmaceutical comprising a heavy element that is transported preferentially to a tumor
  • contrast can be improved dramatically, allowing detection and identification at an earlier stage of tumor development.
  • Such elements are well known, including, for example iodine and gadolinium.
  • a mammography setup can be arranged that includes two images taken as described above. For example, the first would use radiation at 35keV, above the iodine edge. The second would be recorded using 32keV radiation, below the edge. Comparison of the two images would then show a detailed distribution of iodine in detail.
  • mammography using optically-focused x-rays, mammography can be performed with reduced dosage. Contrast can be increased at the same time dose is reduced. Finally, heavy element compounds can further enhance contrast. Converging beams produced by grazing incidence optics allow the image to be recorded on a small detector with conveniently-sized pixels.
  • the design class for x-ray microscopes using spherical optics and near-spherical correctors is extremely broad and versatile. For example, by using a series of four small spheres in sequence, starting a millimeter from a sample, one can create a coma-corrected image with resolution of less than one tenth of a micron, magnified to the level where the lO ⁇ pixels of a CCD can resolve the features. The entire microscope is less than one meter in
  • Figure 8 diagrammatically shows the layout of an x-ray microscope comprising grazing incidence optics and compares it to a conventional light microscope. Radiation is generated in a source 74. The light microscope uses a condenser 73 to refocus light on the target 72. The x-ray source, being large, usually does not need a condenser. Radiation enters the microscope lens 71, which in the case of the x-ray optic is a four element coma-corrected set of spheres. The magnified image is then focused on the detector 70. In Figure 9, raytracing of concentric circles at 0.2 ⁇ spacing shows the resolution produced by the grazing incidence x-ray microscope is near O.l ⁇ .
  • Figure 10 shows how small four-element spherical surface mirrors stacked to form a coma-corrected compound lens.
  • X-rays 92 pass through a small hole 91 in a plate 90.
  • Four spheres (93 and 94) have been sliced and stacked so that the x-ray reflects at a grazing angle off each sequentially.

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La présente invention concerne des procédés et des instruments de focalisation de rayons X et d'imagerie par rayons X (30) utilisant un dispositif optique d'incidence rasante (31, 32), ainsi que leurs utilisations médicales et microscopiques.
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